Chapter 238: The Rod of God

As someone under the control of the Almighty Master, he was both amazed and disturbed by the all-knowing deity’s knowledge of so much personal information. However, deep down, he didn’t want to be controlled.

Given his status, he used all available resources trying to figure out where the Almighty Master was. Unfortunately, he had not been able to find any useful leads.

Now, the sudden incident at the “Farm” which coincided with his communication break with the Almighty Master made him develop a certain assumption. Perhaps, the Almighty Master was the computer system controlling the spaceship at the “Farm”? He knew that besides the spaceship in the central zone, there was also a supercomputer developed by the base in recent years by mimicking the spaceship’s mainframe.

At first, not long after he visited the base, the Almighty Master found him and forced him to yield by threatening him with some personal secrets.

However, what truly inspired faith in the Almighty Master was the fact that in just a year and a half, he had ascended to the position of chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Curtis suspected something before when the Almighty Master urged the use of nuclear weapons to destroy the supercomputer under the Dream Technology Tanga Federation Industrial Park. This confrontation sparked the idea in him.

The events of tonight, combined with the UFO incident, quickly shaped this idea and related it to Dream Technology. In a nutshell, it was possible that Dream Technology was nurtured by extraterrestrials and they were at odds with the Almighty Master on the “Farm”.

The aliens might not be aware of the Almighty Master’s existence. However, the development of Dream Technology had probably caught the Almighty Master’s attention, prompting it to control him and plan to implicate Dream Technology.

Hence, he proposed a military strike on the Dream Technology Industrial Park in the Tanga Federation. Perhaps, Vice President Radack was also controlled by the Almighty Master. Otherwise, how could a nuclear strike plan be approved so smoothly?

However, these actions also led the aliens behind Dream Technology to discover the Almighty Master. This forced the Almighty Master to advance the nuclear strike action, but the extraterrestrials on Dream Technology’s side were stronger. They unexpectedly intercepted the intercontinental missiles.

In return, the aliens initiated a counterstrike using some special means to detonate the nuclear bomb at the “Farm”, resulting in its destruction.

In other words, the Almighty Master was already destroyed.

Thinking of this, Curtis felt a sense of relief and loss. Now that the Almighty Master was gone, he was no longer under anyone’s control.

However, his aspirations for greater power might not be guaranteed.

Just as he was deliberating, Vandiatte said, “If it was really done by aliens, what should we do now? Will they attack the United States? Do we need to put the country on high alert?”

After hearing this, Curtis instantly made a decision. This matter still needs to be observed. If he couldn’t contact the Almighty Master for several days straight, it would basically confirm his conjecture. Then, he could make other plans.

“Don’t worry. Let’s just wait and see. The key point now is that Dream Technology has intercepted the D-5 launched by the Marilan. This is bound to shock the world.

It was the first time in human history that we successfully intercepted an intercontinental ballistic missile in space during a real battle! Dream Technology is no longer an ordinary multinational corporation.

Now, I’m going to the Presidential Mansion to report this to the President. You keep an eye on things here.”

“Let me know in time if the armed robots on the ‘farm’ discover extraterrestrial spaceships or other useful items,” Curtis instructed Vandiatte, who agreed and watched Curtis leave the command center.

The Arabian Sea, southern Bengal Bay. 80 meters under the sea surface, the USS Marlin accelerated away from its original position after launching the D-5 missile. As a ballistic missile nuclear submarine on combat duty, their location would naturally be locked by major countries once a missile was launched.

Following wartime regulations, the USS Marlin’s only option was to get as far away as possible. No one knew if the enemy would counterattack with a nuclear bomb.

“Captain, aren’t we going to dive further?” an officer asked.

Anderson shook his head, “We need to receive information from the headquarters promptly, we cannot dive too deep.”

“But isn’t that dangerous? According to wartime regulations…” he was cut off by Anderson, “Don’t worry. We are targeting a factory of a company, we will not be counterattacked with nuclear weapons.”

“Report! Sonar has detected a large number of unidentified objects around us!” another officer reported.

Anderson was taken aback, “A large number? How many? Is it a school of fish?”

But what answered him was not the sonar officer, but countless collisions. These sounds were clearly the sound of metal colliding!

Fear gripped everyone on the submarine.

“Quick! Ascend immediately!” Anderson suddenly yelled.

Everyone quickly took action, operating the submarine to prepare for ascension when they heard a series of small explosions. Alarms sounded across the vessel.

“The ship is rupturing and taking in water!”

“God! There are so many holes here, I can’t plug them!”

“We are rapidly sinking!”

Help cries spread from all cabins. Anderson’s face turned pale, “Send a message to the headquarters… we are under unknown underwater attack… our ship is taking in a lot of water…”, but before he could finish, the command room was flooded with seawater.

In the depths of the sea, at 800 meters, a metallic fish with the shape of a golden spear calmly watched the USS Marlin breaking in half. Its sharp mouth was shimmering with the glow of silver metal!

Back at the U.S. Department of Defense command center, Vandiatte was nervously watching the fire fighting aircraft that had been drafted, flying over the smoke and pouring a large amount of water. He saw that quite a bit smoke was eliminated by the water, finally able to breathed a sigh of relief.

Just then, an aide came to report, “General, we sent a combat report to the USS Marlin on schedule, but we did not receive a reply from them. We’re currently unable to establish communication with the Marlin!”

“What?!” A shadow flashed across Vandiatte’s heart.

What weapon did Dream Technology use that could sink the USS Marlin so quickly?

“Notify the Diego Garcia base to dispatch search and rescue aircraft and boats to the last known location of the Marlin!”

“Alert, alert, a high-speed object has entered U.S. territory!”

This sound suddenly rang in the command hall. Vandiatte glanced and saw it was an alert from the North American Air Defense Network.

A staff member reported loudly, “An object from space is falling at high speed into our territory, according to trajectory calculations, the landing site is… ‘The Farm’!”

Vandiatte was suddenly taken aback. Could it be that the aliens were going to land?

The staff continued to report the data, “The speed of the object’s descent has reached 20 Mach. The speed is still accelerating. It’s impossible to intercept it!”

Vandiatte immediately understood that the aliens were using space-based kinetic energy weapons. Perhaps they thought the nuclear explosion hadn’t destroyed the target, so that’s why they not launched a second attack.

This kind of space-based kinetic energy weapon was also being developed by the U.S. military. Codenamed “The Rod of God,” it had reached the final testing stage, but the formal deployment wasn’t until 2025.

But the descent speed of the U.S. military’s “The Rod of God” was only 9 Mach, and the impact effect was not as great as imagined. This was why it had not been approved for deployment.

“My God! Look! What is that in the picture?”

Suddenly, there was a shout in the command hall.

Vandiatte looked at the live footage being sent back from the “farm” on the big screen. The firefighting aircraft had just left, and most of the smoke and dust had dissipated.

Beneath the starry sky, a trail of fire fell from the sky, like a sword of divine punishment falling down!

Its speed not only did not slow down, but it got faster and faster!

Vandiatte could see clearly that this streak of fire was going to hit the core of the “farm”, which was where the alien spaceship was hidden.

The area had already collapsed dozens of meters deep. Inside this huge, undulating pit, about a dozen armed robots were searching, obviously they had no time to evacuate.

There was a loud rumbling noise, the pit was accurately hit by the streak of fire, and dust filled the sky, completely obscuring the live footage.

After about ten minutes, when the dust had cleared, the helicopter responsible for the scene shot carefully flew toward it.

A huge, dark hole appeared where the original pit was. Because it was night, the footage shot from the helicopter was very unclear.

Even so, it gave people an idea of the devastation caused by such a horrific attack.

Suddenly, there were a series of collapsing sounds from the big hole, and the dark hole began to collapse continuously.

Vandiatte understood that the aliens had probably achieved their goal.

Elsewhere, about 20 kilometers from area 51, Haskin was excitedly inspecting the video he had just shot in the wilderness.

The falling fire from the sky, with 51 area as the target, shocked and excited Haskin. This was definitely the doing of the aliens. They wanted to destroy the alien research base in the United States.

As he was celebrating, several Humvee military vehicles roared around him.

A group of armed soldiers pushed him onto the engine hood of his SUV without saying a word.

“Hey, I’m a member of the UFO Association, I have the right to shoot, you can’t…”

“Shut up. Your actions have compromised the security of the United States. You are under arrest now.”

An officer finished speaking and motioned for the soldiers to take Haskin away. Then someone poured gasoline on the SUV and set it on fire.

Perhaps Haskin vanished from this world from then on.

“Still not found” thanks for the 100 coins!